Comments on: Google’s New Spyware in Chrome 94

By: DAVID GEER

DAVID GEER — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 12:17:25 +0000

An additional API is potentially another insecure API. What happens when hackers use the API to spy and they want more access and utility from it? Will they leverage it to include users in botnets or collect their keystrokes?

By: analogtek

analogtek — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 20:22:38 +0000

Google is cut from the same cloth as microsoft. It is very clear now that they are not to be trusted. My friends were raving about how clean and fast chrome was. But I stood my ground and stayed with firefox. Now who has egg on their face.

By: Richard Jameson

Richard Jameson — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:36:20 +0000

Good to know news people can use. Google is pure evil and smart people have nothing to do with the Google monopoly monster. I used Chromium and then discovered it was phoning-home to Google constantly like Firefox does to spy and log user data. Try Wireshark and watch the backdoor packets fly home to Google on both Chromium and Firefox!

By: Quidnam

Quidnam — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 02:50:44 +0000

Craig — Now might be a good time to switch to the Ungoogled Chromium project.

By: Christine Hall

Christine Hall — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:53:46 +0000

Craig, according to ghacks, maybe. They say: “Chromium-based browsers will support the new API eventually, unless it is removed manually by the development team or disabled.”

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:03:50 +0000

Does this also affect chromium 94 (i.e. Linux Mint’s debian package, or Canonoical’s snap package?)?

By: Christine Hall

Christine Hall — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 23:36:52 +0000

Oops! My mistake. Fixed. Thanks for the heads up Evan.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:25:43 +0000

I don’t know where you got the idea that Apple uses Chrome as the base for Safari. That is just not even close to correct